Blighted area to become green space

11:11 PM,
Nov. 26, 2012

Demolition of a blighted property recently annexed to Granton on the corner of Highway 10 and Granton Road began Monday afternoon and will last about three or four days. Trustee James Chadwick, from left, Clerk Jeanette Steiner and village President Tom Gorst talk in front of the building that will be razed and replaced with prairie grass.

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The dilapidated house with ramshackle out-buildings wasn't hard to miss when entering the village of Granton, about 20 miles west of Marshfield.

Since serving as a gasoline station and small farm decades ago, the property at the corner of Granton Road and Highway 10 had become run down and was an eye-sore.

"This is the entrance to our community, and it didn't give anyone a good first impression," said Jeanette Steiner, Granton village clerk, during a ceremonial ground-breaking at the site Monday afternoon. ...